IT
IS ADMITTED by all intelligent people that the so-called "Protocols
of the Wise men of Zion" are criminal forgeries, and could never
have been written either by a group of Jews or Freemasons. Yet their
authorship remains unknown. The amazing part of it is that this
fantastic fraud has succeeded in its planned objective-- the ousting of
all Judaic-Masonic influence in Central Europe by methods that would bring
a blush to the cheek of a Torquemada.

The contents of these alleged Protocols are well enough known, and have
been broadcast in every country as authentic reports-- proces
verbaux-- of secret conferences at which certain Jewish leaders
drew up plans for the formation of an invisible world-government.
With the help of Masonic Lodges and the liberal, democratic, socialist
and communist parties, these "Elders of Zion" are said to have
conspired for the overthrow of all non-Jewish governments and to destroy
all religions other than Judaism. Every despicable means to weaken
Christian institutions is set forth by the imaginary leaders of this vast
conspiracy.

All this is to be accomplished principally by means of the Masonic orders
throughout the world, as the blind dupes and willing tools of this supraimperialism
of the Jews. Credit is claimed for the Jews in having instigated
practically all revolutionary movements of the past century, assassinations
of rulers and heads of states, all the wars, civil, racial and international,
and all the upheavals in and throughout the nations-- from the Protestant
Reformation to the economic conditions that resulted in our business depression.
Behind it all there is pictured the cold calculation, the unscrupulous
cunning and murderous fanaticism of these Elders of Zion. Protocol
One tells of a vast army of spies and secret agents, well supplied with
funds, who bore from within and create dissension and revolution in all
countries. Support of anarchist, communist, and socialist movements
for the destruction of Christian civilization is outlined in Protocol
Three; also the debasement and ruin of the currency system, leading to
a world-wide economic crisis. Universal war against any nation or
group of nations, which fails to respond, is planned in Protocol Seven.
Protocol Ten contains particulars how all morality is to be undermined
and leading statesmen blackmailed, compromised and calumniated in order
to force them to serve the ends of the conspirators.*

The secret
conclave, at which these monstrous plans were purported to have been drawn
up, is said to have been held under the auspices of "one of the most
influential and most highly initiated leaders of Freemasonry"; they
are also said to have been "signed by representatives of Zion of
the Thirty-Third Degree."

No group
of organization could ever be as evil and satanic as these Judaic-Masonic
Elders of Zion picture themselves to be. They are the apotheosis
of the anti-Christ, and could only have been conjured up by minds imbued
with the fearful expectation of the eventual coming of an anti-Christ.

It must be
admitted that there is a certain similarity between this revolutionary
plan of action and the Bolshevist program that followed the assassination
of the Czar of Russia and the overthrow of the Kerensky regime.
But of the seventeen members of the Council of People's Commissars of
the Soviet government at that time, only one, Trotsky, was a Jew.
Neither have the Masons ever been the least bit influential in Russia,
either under the Czar or the Soviets. A world-wide economic depression
also has since happened, somewhat similar to that allegedly planned by
these elders of Zion. By no means, however, have the Jews and Masons
ever so completely controlled the world's finances. They suffered
as much as others as a result of the economic debacle.

The Nazi-Fascists,
who have successfully exploited these Protocols to their great advantage,
and who have used these criminal forgeries to attain their primary
objective, might well be accused of their authorship. But their
publication antedated the rise of Fascism by a quarter of a century,
when Hitler and Mussolini were youngsters learning their multiplication
tables in school, and Franco babbling his "Hail Marys" at his
mother's knee.

Now, authorship
of an anonymous document is best discovered from the document itself--
by the cause it favors and the enemies it depicts. These will appear
even if placed in reverse. A clear sample of this can be seen from
such an analysis of a part of these Protocols of Zion which I have before
me. It is a reprint from The Catholic Gazette,
of February, 1936, a monthly publication of the Catholic Missionary Society
of London, England. Space limits permit the quotation of only parts
of this nefarious document.

The Judaic-Masonic
conspirators are speaking:

"As
long as there remains among the Gentiles any moral conception of the social
order, and until all faith, patriotism, and dignity are uprooted, our
reign over the world shall not come...

"We
have still a long way to go before we can overthrow our main opponent:
the Catholic Church...

"We
must always bear in mind that the Catholic Church is the only institution
which has stood, and which will, as long as it remains in existence, stand
in our way. The Catholic Church, with her methodical work and her
edifying and moral teachings, will always keep her children in such a
state of mind as to make them too self-respecting to yield to our domination,
and to bow before our future king of Israel...

"That
is why we have been striving to discover the best way of shaking the Catholic
Church to her very foundations...

"We
have blackened the Catholic Church with the most ignominious calumnies,
we have stained her history and disgraced even her noblest activities.
We have imputed to her the wrongs of her enemies, and have thus brought
these latter to stand more closely by our side... We have turned her Clergy
into objects of hatred and ridicule, we have subjected them to the contempt
of the crowd... We have caused the practice of the Catholic Religion to
be considered out of date and a mere waste of time...

"One
of the many triumphs of our Freemasonry is that those Gentiles who become
members of our Lodges, should never suspect that we are using them to
build their own jails, upon whose terraces we shall erect the throne of
our Universal King of Israel...

"So
far, we have considered our strategy in our attacks upon the Catholic
Church from the outside... Let us now explain how we have gone further
in our work, to hasten the ruin of the Catholic Church... and how we have
brought even some of her Clergy to become pioneers of our cause.

"We
have induced some of our children to join the Catholic body, with the
explicit intimation that they should work in a still more efficient way
for the disintegration of the Catholic Church...

"We
are the Fathers of all Revolutions-- even of those which sometimes happen
to turn against us. We are the supreme Masters of Peace and War.
We can boast of being the Creators of the REFORMATION! (sic). Calvin
was one of our Children; he was of Jewish descent, and was entrusted by
Jewish authority and encouraged with Jewish finance to draft his scheme
in the Reformation.

"Martin
Luther yielded to the influence of his Jewish friends, and again, by Jewish
authority and with Jewish finance, his plot against the Catholic Church
met with success...

"Thanks
to our propaganda, to our theories of LIBERALISM and to our MISREPRESENTATIONS
OF FREEDOM (sic), the minds of many among the Gentiles were ready to welcome
the Reformation. They separated from the Church to fall into our
snare. And thus the Catholic Church has been sensibly weakened,
and her authority over the Kings of the Gentiles has been reduced
to almost naught...

"We
are grateful to PROTESTANTS for their loyalty to our wishes-- although
most of them are, in the sincerity of their faith, unaware of their
loyalty to us...

"France,
with her Masonic government, is under our thumb. England, in her
dependence upon our finance, is under our heel; and in her Protestantism
is our hope for the destruction of the Catholic Church. Spain and
Mexico are but toys in our hands. And many other countries, including
the U.S.A., have already fallen before our scheming...

"Likewise,
as regards our diplomatic plans and the power of our secret societies,
there is no organization to equal us. The Jesuits
are the only ones to compare with us. But we have succeeded
in discrediting them... for they are a visible organization, whereas
we are safely hidden under the cover of our secret societies.

"But
the Catholic Church is still alive...

"We
must destroy her without the least delay and without the slightest mercy...
Let us intensify our activities in poisoning the morality of the Gentiles.
Let us spread the spirit of revolution in the minds of the people.
They must be made to despise Patriotism and the love of family, to consider
their faith as a humbug... Let us make it impossible for Christians outside
the Catholic Church to be reunited to that Church, otherwise the
greatest obstruction to our domination will be strengthened and all our
work undone...

"Let
us remember that as long as there still remains active enemies of the
Catholic Church, we may hope to become Masters of the World... And let
us remember always that the future Jewish King will never reign in the
world before the Pope in Rome is dethroned...

"When
the time comes and the power of the Pope shall at last be broken, the
fingers of an invisible hand will call the attention of the masses of
the people to the court of the Sovereign Pontiff to let them know that
we have completely undermined the power of the Papacy... The King of the
Jews will then be the real pope and the Father of the Jewish World-Church."

(End
of quotation.)

When all
this is placed in reverse, the following appears:

The Catholic
Church is the only upholder of morality, the social order, faith, patriotism
and dignity...

The Catholic
Church is the only institution which has stood, and which will always
stand, in the way of antichrist.

The Catholic
Church is the great exemplar of methodical work, edifying and moral teachings;
she always keeps her children self-respecting, and will never bow to satanic
allurements.

Only when
Catholics become ashamed of professing the precepts of the Church and
obeying its commands, shall we have the spread of revolt and false liberalism.

The Catholic
Church has been blackened by the most ignominious calumnies, her
history has been stained, and her noblest activities disgraced.
The Practices of the Catholic Church are not out of date or a mere waste
of time.

Freemasonry
is allied with Satan against the Catholic Church. Not all priests
are to be trusted; liberal Catholic priests only serve the work of the
devil.

The Reformation
was the work of evil conspirators. Calvin and Luther were financed
by them to overthrow the Catholic Church.

Freedom and
liberty are mere misrepresentations of good. Protestants have unwittingly
helped to bring all the evils into our present world. Protestant
England aims to destroy the Catholic Church. All that may happen
in Spain and Mexico is a part of a plot against the Catholic Religion.

The Jesuits
are not an underhand organization, but all they do is open and above board.
The Jesuits are the only organization, however, who can defeat the force
of evil in the world.

Finally:
As long as the Pope remains on his throne in Rome the world is safe...

This is exactly
what is taught in all Catholic schools. Every retreat and mission
given to priests and lay people begins with St. Ignatius' picture of "The
Two Camps"-- the Catholic Church led by God on one hill, and the
combination of Protestants, Jews, masons, communists, socialists and atheists
on the other led by Satan.

And all of
this is to be found again in Father Coughlin's Social Justice magazine.
In its issue of February 5, (1940), for instance, he reiterates that the
Catholic Church is "the ideal Christian Front" and proclaims
that all those opposed to, or not with it, belong to anti-Christian groups
which will soon "appear incarnated in the person of Antichrist himself."
He says that "lay Christian leadership of social matters is to be
condemned." A Special Correspondent of his magazine in Rome writes
an article that the "Only Hope of Christian Europe Lies in Rome,"
and that Europe can only be saved by the restoration of the Holy Roman
Empire; that England, "who more than any other country now represents
the neo-Judaic, anti-Catholic spirit," will be destroyed by Germany
and Italy. In another part of this issue, liberal Catholic priests,
like Mgr. John A. Ryan, are called "Hireling Clergy" paid by
left-wing revolutionary groups. Towards the end is a trick questionnaire
which implies twenty answers aimed to secure a poll from its readers which
will be condemnatory of democracy.

Although
first published in Russia in 1903, the Protocols of Zion had their origin
in France and date from the Dreyfus Affair, of which the Jesuits were
the chief instigators. They were planned also first to take effect
in France, by the overthrow of the "Judaic-Masonic" government
of the French Republic. But the discovery of the gigantic fraud
of Leo Taxil, who had been openly supported by the Jesuits, the concluding
of the Franco-Russian alliance, along with the Vatican's difficulties
with the French government at that time, made it more opportune to have
them appear first in Russia.

These Protocols
of supposedly Jewish leaders are not the first documents of their kind
fabricated by the Jesuits.

For over
a hundred years before these Protocols appeared, the Jesuits had continued
to make use of a similar fraud called "The Secrets of the
Elders of Bourg-Fontaine" against Jansenism-- a liberal
French Catholic movement among the secular clergy. The analogy
between the two forgeries is perfect-- the secret assemblage in the forest
of Bourg-Fontaine, the plan of the "conspirators" to destroy
the Papacy and establish religious tolerance among all nations, the alleged
plot against Throne and Altar, and the setting up of a world-government
in opposition to the Catholic Church. There is the same dramatization
of the negative pole of the historic evolution of the
world, in order to bring out, by contrast, the positive
Christian (Catholic) pole, around which all conservative forces-- the
monarchy, the aristocracy, the army, the clergy-- must gather to save
the world from Satan's onslaught.

Analyzing,
therefore, the ends to be attained by these Protocols of Zion, the means
to be employed, the forces depicted as evil and those to be considered
good, we must reach the conclusion that only to those, whose objectives
these forgeries were clearly intended to serve, can their authorship be
attributed.

The End

(Originally taken from "Behind
the Dictators," by L.H. Lehmann and reprinted by permission of Agora
Publishing Company, New York 6, New York. Copyright by Agora Publishing
Company.)

*
Knowledgeable Christians should know that this picture is not Scriptural.
It calls into question Revelation 17:18 and all of Revelation 18, with
its great emphasis on verse 24. Rome "Christian"
is the culprit; NOT THE JEW! Hence we must decide between the
veracity of the author of the Protocols and the veracity of our Lord Jesus
Christ. - Editor, OFPM